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Dracula 2000
No, it doesn't suck. Injected with new life, Bram Stoker's celebrity vampire draws some fresh blood in this fun and surprisingly solid offering. [b Story[/b Billed as "Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000," Miramax distribution vein Dimension Films is no doubt trying to...
Dracula goes commercial: Identity revealed
Dracula 2000 ** Starring: Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer Directed by: Patrick Lussier Rating: AA (horror, not recommended for children) Playing at: Orleans, Cinema 9, SouthKeys, Coliseum, SilverCity, StarCite, AMC Kanata "Hey man, what's with all the voodoo?" A...
300 Named Hollywood Flick of the Year, Spartans Dines in Hotel Ballroom (Blog)
One of the more overwhelming success stories of 2007 has been the ride enjoyed by 300. Clearly a summer blockbuster that studio analysts thought couldn't compete with Transformers, Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean and others (or else, why would it be released in...
What Butler saw
Interview; Gerry Butler; Exclusive Film sex can be a chore, but someone has to do it says Gerry LUCKY movie hunk Gerry Butler has got to grips with some of Hollywood's sexiest leading ladies. In just about every role the jammy Paisley-born actor has landed he's been...
Ambition Burns for new star
After his blooding in the latest Dracula film Scottish actor Gerard Butler wants to play Robert Burns, writes Phil Miller Gerard Butler has Hollywood at his feet, Tinseltown producers hammering on his door and the cream of Los Angeles' talent scouts besieging his...
Craven Image
[i]He's so good, the director of Scream is willing to stake his reputation on him in the new Dracula movie. Kicking off our Hot Scots issue, Paisley boy Gerry Butler explains why the legal profession's loss is acting's gain.[/i] THERE is something strangely forbidden...
Dracula 2000 – Gerard Butler – Playing the famous blood-sucker for a new century
I interviewed the vampire as we walked through Lafayette Cemetery in New Orleans, ironically only a few blocks from the home of novelist Anne Rice. But this isn't one of Rice's vampires -- this is the big guy himself. This is Dracula, alive and well and wreaking havoc...
I’m not evil
Says Dracula 2001 star;Gerard Butler is a law unto himself when it comes to auditions GLASGOW actor Gerard Butler has just landed the lead role in the new Michael Crichton film Timeline and, to put it mildy, he's thrilled. Not just because it's a Hollywood...
Life’s great when you’re undead
Imogen Edwards-Jones chews the garlic with Gerard Butler, toothsome star of Dracula 2001 You have probably never heard of Gerard Butler. You'll probably have seen him - most notably tied to a bed with a bowl of fruit covering his nether regions in the Channel 4 series...
Beware He Bites
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Harrison’s Flowers
A 7 Films Cinema/StudioCanal/France 2 Cinema production. (International sales: Studio Canal, Paris.) Produced by Elie Chouraqui, Albert Cohen. Directed by Elie Chouraqui. Screenplay, Chouraqui, Didier Le Pecheur, Isabel Ellsen, Michael Katims. Camera (color,...
Focus plants ‘Flowers’
Universal Pictures' specialty division Universal Focus has picked up U.S. distribution rights to "Harrison's Flowers," which stars Andie MacDowell and David Strathairn. The first English-language pic from French helmer Elie Chouraqui, pic was released in France on...
A Life in the Day of Phil Hunt, Producer of “Fast Food”
Haven't quite worked out why we do it. Is it the glamour? (Not for producers surely.) Is it the sense of accomplishment as you stand in a screening of your completed film? (Or should I say sit in your wheelchair as all your limbs have finally given up on you.) Or...
Fast Food
I sat down to Fast Food with high hopes. It promised inspiration from new Asian cinema, and boasted Douglas Henshall as the lead - always a very attractive, watchable performer even when, as here, he is let down by the script. Fast Food quickly degenerates into just...
London Calling…
Well, you must hand it to British writer-director Stewart Sugg for squeezing this much style and energy out of such a low-budget production. Fast Food is one of those hip London thrillers that blends strong violence and black comedy (ie, heavy doses of A Clockwork...
Solicitor forsook court dramas
A TRAINEE solicitor who quit to become an actor is taking on the role which inspired him to pursue a theatrical life a year ago after seeing it at the Fringe. Gerard Butler, 26, from Paisley, was only a month away from completing his traineeship with a leading...